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A McCarthy Moment for Donald Trump — And The GOP Donald Trump’s response to a well deserved rebuke form the parents of a Muslim-American war hero should lead his party to as whether its candidate has, at long last, no … Continue reading →

Wingnut Week In Review: From Russia, With Love? While Hillary Clinton was shattering that glass ceiling, Donald Trump pulled off a first of his own: the first presidential candidate to invite a cyber attack against the United States.

Trump’s Not Fooling LGBT Americans Donald Trump seriously thinks he can woo LGBT voters with empty rhetoric about “protecting” us from terrorist attacks. But who’s going to protect us from his religious extremist friends, and his party’s anti-LGBT platform?

Mothers of the Movement: Out of Grief, Unity and Hope The Mothers of the Movement brought the audience at the Democratic National Convention to its feet, and hushed it with the staggering losses that brought them there. It was one … Continue reading →

Wingnut Week In Review: A GOP Platform for Which Century? The same week that Democrats advanced the most progressive platform in the party’s history, Republicans crafted a platform that effectively rejects the 21st century.

Donald Trump Appeases Extreme Right With Pence Pick In appeasing the extreme right by choosing Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump reveals how he hopes to secure enough votes to win the presidency.

Three Years After Justice Failed Trayvon Martin In the three years since George Zimmerman was acquitted in the murder of Trayvon Martin and the Black Live Matter movement was born, so many more have been lost even as so much … Continue reading →

Baton Rouge, Minnesota, and Dallas Through A Father’s Eyes The horrors we witnessed in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, and Dallas are rooted in racism that has haunted our families for generations, and is perhaps at its deadliest when embodied in law … Continue reading →

Wingnut Week In Review: Selective Outrage Three shootings made national news this week. Most Americans were outraged by all three. However, conservatives were outraged by one, and silent about the other two.

Wingnut Week In Review: The Benghazi Committee Takes A Bow It took Republicans four years, over $7 million, eight congressional investigations, 11 hours grilling former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and 800 pages to reveal nothing new about the Benghazi … Continue reading →

Paul Ryan’s Sickening Obamacare Replacement After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that’s guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick.

A Lifeboat In A Loan Shark-Infested Economy Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau revealed new rules to rein in payday lenders and their outrageous fees. Now, the CFPB needs to take the next step to protect Americans from … Continue reading →

Wingnut Week In Review: The Worst 5 Right-Wing Responses To Orlando While the rest of the country, and the rest of the world stood with Orlando in grief and solidarity, right-wingers tried to outdo each other with awful reactions.

Hate Mongering Trump Is Doing Exactly What The Terrorists Want Nearly one year after the Charleston massacre, we are reminded again that hatred is deadly. Now we must affirm that no one who spreads “returns hate for hate” is qualified … Continue reading →

Terror Does Not Discriminate In the midst of pitched battles over whether some Americans can discriminate against LGBT Americans based on religion, we are viscerally reminded that terror and violence do not discriminate.

Oh, come on. Christian Bale has a point. If Moses were around today — “hearing voices” and acting out — he’d probably be diagnosable as schizophrenic. After all, when people “hear voices” today, they end up as mental health patients, not prophets.